March 1, 2021
Hit hard by Covid-19: Female mushroom farmer struggling for survival
Shukuria Begum, 47, mother of three children at remote Laxmanpur village in Nilphamari’s Saidpur upazila, has been cultivating mushroom at her home premises using innovative technique for the last...
February 21, 2021
Somela Rahman: An unsung language hero
Language movement veteran Somela Rahman is 84 now. Once quite the rabble-rouser, she now passes most of her time at her residence in Nilphamari’s Hospital Road, bed-ridden with old age complications.
January 22, 2021
How an EPZ transformed thousands of lives
It is a transformation out of a fairy tale. A land once characterised by thatched houses and abject poverty now dotted with sturdy brick and tin residences and the unmistakeable signs of people...
December 29, 2020
Cashing in on cashew nuts
Jackpot Cashew Nuts Industries started producing an assortment of cashew-nut based foods earlier this year in a bid to cash in on the growing demand for heart-healthy snacks.
December 17, 2020
Chilahati-Holdibari Rail Link: Opens after 55 yrs with promises of prosperity
After 55 years, rail communications between Bangladesh and India through Chilahati-Haldibari route is going to resume today.
December 16, 2020
A train to massacre
It was past midnight at Saidpur Rail Station. In the dim light, mostly Hindu Marwaris and some Bangalees from all walks of life could be seen standing beside the platform. Tense, even those who...
November 20, 2020
Northern districts fall in love with coffee farming
In the past, people in rural Bangladesh used to consider coffee as an expensive, imported South American drinking product meant for a select group of people with high income.
November 1, 2020
103 poverty-stricken indigenous families struggling to survive
Indigenous people from the Musahar community, who used to live on catching and selling eel and snail, are struggling to survive as they cannot sell eel and snail amid coronavirus outbreak.
October 17, 2020
Tea in, tobacco out
Tea is fast replacing tobacco in Kishoreganj upazila of Nilphamari as favourable weather and soil conditions along with a ready market next door mean large profits for farmers.
August 3, 2020
On the track of history: Century-old locomotives in Saidpur
Saidpur Railway Workshop in Nilphamari, the largest in the country established in 1870, has been displaying rail engines from the bygone era at its exhibition yard on its premises, in a bid to...